Law Schools

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday that the newly renamed Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
celebrates a "remarkable judge and teacher" who will be remembered as one of the greatest justices in history.

In the aftermath of abysmal bar exam results, Indiana Tech Law School is offering free additional test preparation courses
to ready its first graduates for a second try, but observers say the school may need to do more than have students study harder.

An alumnus of Indiana University Maurer School of Law will give nearly $8 million to his alma mater to benefit the school’s
Center of the Global Legal Profession through an endowment and a professorship.

Students interested in studying law in Indiana now have the option of earning their bachelor’s and law degrees sooner
through a new program being offered at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis.

The inaugural graduating class of Indiana Tech Law School in Fort Wayne set a goal of a 100 percent bar passage rate, but
a review of the names of successful July applicants reveals only one Indiana Tech student passed the Indiana Bar Exam.

In what is believed to be the first partnership between the United States Army and a major law school, Indiana University
Maurer School of Law announced Tuesday qualifying soldiers can receive a scholarship to attend the law school.

Although the Class of 2015 law school graduates posted an employment rate of 86.7 percent, the size of the class — the
smallest since before the start of the Great Recession — is masking the decline in the legal market which created fewer
actual jobs for the newest attorneys, according to a new study by the National Association for Law Placement.

Indiana University Maurer School of Law is teaming up with IU’s Office of the Vice President and General Counsel to
provide will preparation services to university employees, students and parents at no charge.

Law students may be able to take home a paycheck while earning academic credit at an externship under a proposal the American
Bar Association House of Delegates will consider during the ABA’s annual meeting beginning Thursday in San Francisco.

Charles Geyh has been chosen as one of just 33 professors from universities from around the country for the prestigious 2016
Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program. He is believed to be the first from IU Maurer to receive the recognition.

Launched in January 2015, the intellectual property clinic is part of the law school’s Center for Intellectual Property
Research. It has offered pro bono legal services to more than 80 inventors, entrepreneurs and small businesses with roughly
half the work related to patents.

Indiana law school deans say they would be open to accepting someone’s Graduate Record Examination score in place of
the Law School Admission Test, though most said they would need more research to prove the GRE is a valid predictor of law
school success.